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  2. Uttarayana - Wikipedia

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    Uttarayana is referred to as the day of new good healthy wealthy beginning. In the Mahabharata , this day marks the death of Bhishma . Bhishma had the ability to choose the time of his death and although mortally wounded in war, he chose to delay his death until uttarayan. [ 1 ]

  3. International Kite Festival in Gujarat – Uttarayan - Wikipedia

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    The day marks the beginning of the auspicious six-month period known as Uttarayana. Today, regardless of people's background or beliefs, they are welcome to fly kites with everyone else in Gujarat in January. Most visitors arrive from around India, from Gujarat itself or another state.

  4. Makar Sankranti - Wikipedia

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    Uttarayana, as Makar Sankranti is called in Gujarati, is a major festival in the state of Gujarat [52] which lasts for two days. 14 January is Uttarayana; 15 January is Vasi-Uttarayana (Stale Uttarayana). [53] Gujarati people keenly await this festival to fly kites, called patang. Kites for Uttarayana are made of special light-weight paper and ...

  5. Dakshinayana - Wikipedia

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    Dakshinayana (Sanskrit: दक्षिणायन, romanized: Dakṣiṇāyana) [1] is a Hindu astronomical concept that refers to the movement of the sun to the south of the equator, [2] [3] and is also a term that indicates the six-month period between the summer solstice and the winter solstice.

  6. Sankranti - Wikipedia

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    Makar Sankranti is also called Uttarayana - the day on which the sun begins his northward journey. The traditional Indian calendar is based on lunar positions, Sankranti is a solar event. The date of Makar Sankranti remains constant over a long term, 14 January or occasionally, 15 January as the Sun begins to rise in Makara Râshi.

  7. Bhishma Ashtami - Wikipedia

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    Bhishma is regarded to have chosen to die on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, during the propitious period known as the Uttarayana. Bhishma Ashtami is observed during the month of Magha in the Hindu calendar. It corresponds to the months of January–February. [1]

  8. Bhishma (1962 film) - Wikipedia

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    The film begins in the court of Brahma, where Mahabhisha & Ganga lures each other, and the lord curses them to be born as mortals Mahabhisha takes birth as Shantanu in the Kuru dynasty, meets Ganga, and knits her on a condition not to question her actions Time passes, and Ganga gives birth to 7 children and drowns them in the river During the turn of the eighth one, devastated, Shantanu ...

  9. Vyasaraya Ballal - Wikipedia

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    Vyasaraya Ballal (1 December 1923 – 30 January 2008) was a major writer in the Kannada language and Sahitya Academy Award winner [1] for his novel Bandaya in 1986. His Novels Hemanthagaana, Uttarayana and Bandaya are the major contributions to the Kannada Novel.